The Passion of the Apostle Andrew (Latin recension)

Passio Andreae · Anonymous (Latin passion narrative of Andrew) · 5th-6th century (Latin recension) · apocryphon

Latin · domain: latin-apocrypha · researched 2026-11-14

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The Latin Passio Andreae was edited by Maximilian Bonnet in Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1, which prints 'Passio Andreae', 'Ex Actis Andreae', 'Martyria Andreae', 'Acta Andreae et Matthiae', 'Acta Petri et Andreae', 'Passio Bartholomaei', 'Acta Ioannis' and 'Martyrium Matthaei' with no translation (https://archive.org/details/actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog). HOLLIS Primo 'Passio Andreae latine' returns only Bonnet's 1895 Acta Andreae, whose title advertises the Greek Martyrium and the Latin Passio side by side, again without an English rendering (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Passio%20Andreae%20latine&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 English versions of Andrew's death exist but are made from the Greek: 'Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew' in Ante-Nicene Fathers 8, p. 511 (https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff), and Dennis R. MacDonald's Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias (Scholars Press, 1990); the Polebridge Acts of Andrew (2005) does contain a section titled 'The Passion of Andrew' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20of%20Andrew&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The catalogue records do not state that any of them renders Bonnet's Latin Passio, and no English translation of the Latin text as such was located.

Andrew is the apostle of the Byzantine and Russian churches, and the Latin Passio is the form in which his death reached the Latin West. Everything an English reader can consult is translated from the Greek or from a conflated dossier, so the Latin recension's own additions — and its relation to Gregory of Tours' epitome — remain invisible.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew · Ante-Nicene Fathers 8 · Alexander Walker · 1886 language: en · English version of Andrew's martyrdom, p. 511, made within a collection of Greek texts
The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals · SBL Texts and Translations 33 · Dennis R. MacDonald · 1990 language: en · English translation with Greek and Latin witnesses; the Latin Passio is not the translated text
The Acts of Andrew · Early Christian Apocrypha (Polebridge Press) · 2005 language: en · translation of the Andrew traditions including a section 'The Passion of Andrew'; the catalogue does not identify its source text

Edition / series

Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew · Ante-Nicene Fathers 8 · Alexander Walker · 1886

language: en · English version of Andrew's martyrdom, p. 511, made within a collection of Greek texts

The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals · SBL Texts and Translations 33 · Dennis R. MacDonald · 1990

language: en · English translation with Greek and Latin witnesses; the Latin Passio is not the translated text

The Acts of Andrew · Early Christian Apocrypha (Polebridge Press) · 2005

language: en · translation of the Andrew traditions including a section 'The Passion of Andrew'; the catalogue does not identify its source text

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1898 imprint) actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog (Bonnet, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1: Passio Andreae)

Source and licence

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1898 imprint)

actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog (Bonnet, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1: Passio Andreae)

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Record	Citation
Acts of Andrew · 2005 · eng	"Acts of Andrew." Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, c2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990111417530203941
The Apocryphal Acts of Andrew · 2000 · eng	"The Apocryphal Acts of Andrew." Leuven : Peeters, c2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990084020460203941
The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals MacDonald, Dennis R., 1946- · 1990 · eng, grc, lat	MacDonald, Dennis R., 1946-. "The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals." Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1990. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990021147720203941
A letter in Latin and English, : from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein they declare their former Resolutions, to adhere to their King Robert the Bruce, as the Restorer of the Safety and Liberties of the People, and as having the true Right of Succession. This Manuscript being 424 Years old, sets forth the Antiquity and Valour of the Scots, and this remarkable Consideration, that the Lord Jesus Christ, after his Passion and Resurrection, honoured them with a Call to his Holy Faith, by his Apostle St. Andrew. Translated from the Original in Latin, as is [infert] by the eminent Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in his Observations on Precedency · 1745 · eng	"A letter in Latin and English, : from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherei…
A letter in Latin and English, from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein they declare their former Resolutions, to adhere to their King Robert the Bruce, as the Restorer of the Safety and Liberties of the People, and as having the true Right of Succession. This Manuscript being 424 Years old, sets forth the Antiquity and Valour of the Scots, and this remarkable Consideration, that the Lord Jesus Christ, after his Passion and Resurrection, honoured them with a Call to his Holy Faith, by his Apostle St. Andrew. Translated from the Original in Latin, as is [infert] by the eminent Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in his Observations on Precedency · 1745. · eng	"A letter in Latin and English, from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein…

Record

Citation

Acts of Andrew

· 2005 · eng

"Acts of Andrew." Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, c2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990111417530203941

The Apocryphal Acts of Andrew

· 2000 · eng

"The Apocryphal Acts of Andrew." Leuven : Peeters, c2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990084020460203941

The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals

MacDonald, Dennis R., 1946- · 1990 · eng, grc, lat

MacDonald, Dennis R., 1946-. "The Acts of Andrew and the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the city of the cannibals." Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1990. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990021147720203941

A letter in Latin and English, : from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein they declare their former Resolutions, to adhere to their King Robert the Bruce, as the Restorer of the Safety and Liberties of the People, and as having the true Right of Succession. This Manuscript being 424 Years old, sets forth the Antiquity and Valour of the Scots, and this remarkable Consideration, that the Lord Jesus Christ, after his Passion and Resurrection, honoured them with a Call to his Holy Faith, by his Apostle St. Andrew. Translated from the Original in Latin, as is [infert] by the eminent Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in his Observations on Precedency

· 1745 · eng

"A letter in Latin and English, : from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherei…

A letter in Latin and English, from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein they declare their former Resolutions, to adhere to their King Robert the Bruce, as the Restorer of the Safety and Liberties of the People, and as having the true Right of Succession. This Manuscript being 424 Years old, sets forth the Antiquity and Valour of the Scots, and this remarkable Consideration, that the Lord Jesus Christ, after his Passion and Resurrection, honoured them with a Call to his Holy Faith, by his Apostle St. Andrew. Translated from the Original in Latin, as is [infert] by the eminent Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in his Observations on Precedency

· 1745. · eng

"A letter in Latin and English, from The Nobility, Barons and Commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the Seals of the Nobility, directed to Pope John, Who, and Predecessors were most great and magnificent in these Ages, and did a great many and singular Favours and Privileges to Scotland: Wherein…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Passion of the Apostle Andrew (Latin recension)” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-passio-andreae